Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-24

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taxes into the Trego county treasury.
Col. A. T. Morgan arrived home on
Sunday, after an absence of a week or ten
days.
james Reeder, ESQ.,, of Hays City,
) was pleasant caller Wednesday after
noon.
Captain Hanna went east Friday
night Of last week, and remained over
Sunday.
Hon. w. II. Pilkenton went to To-
peka last night, where he will spend
Christmas.
w. G. L. Beard, of this city, is one of
the directors of the Gazette Printing Com
pany, of Abilene.
After a protracted season of rest, the
Wa-Keeney correspondent woke up in
Tuesdays Abilene Gazette.
The school bonded Indebtedness of
Trego county amounts to $50. That
of Ellis county is $3O,7OO. -
w. E. Phillips, of Manhattan. was in
the city Wednesday night He took the
train Thursday morning for home.
Remember the great campaign of
1888, look at the World g premium offers,
come no7v and select your reading matter.
ID. w. Curtis, of the southern part of
this county, is clerking for Marshall &
Uford. He is brother of Mrs. Uford's.
Our New Years calling cards are ex-
quisitely beautiful. Come and see them.
It will cost you nothing to look at them.
Squire and Mrs. Hutzel will spend
Christmas in Hays City, where relatives
and kind friends will give them q happy
day.
Mr.. Cunningham. of the government
land Office, went to Ellsworth last night,
where, we believe, he will take his Christ
mas.
e. F. Porter has, of late, been risking
his neck with persistent regularity in
plunging headlong on horseback after coy
otes.
Frank J. Mathews, who was in Wa
Keeney as printer last year, has taken
charge of the Register at Woodston, Rocks
county.
Geo. G. Ward has had some good
sized trees set around where his new
residence is to stand, thus making sensi-
BILE start.
On Wednesday County Treasurer
Gibbs received the railroad taxes for
Trego county for the year 1887. They
amounted to $8,148.66.
r. B. Morton, brother of our station
agent, has taken lay-of of two or three
weeks from railroad duties, and is visit
ing in north Missouri.
"A. T. Damn, of the hardware firm Of
w. 81. & A. T. Damn, has been confined to
his home, one mile east of town, several.
days this week. Ness City Nezus, II. ~
"A copy of the Senate Journal and Of
the House Journal of the legislative SEES
sion of 1887 have reached us this week
from the Office of the secretary of state.
g. F. Mcknight was having q we'll
sunk at his place, when, at depth of
seventy feet, sand caved in around the
drill. Mr.. Howarth, the owner OF the
drill, will lose several days in digging it
out.
The most severe cold will soon yield
to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
does not suppress cold but looeens and
relieves it. No one afflicted with q throat
or lung trouble can use it without benefit.
Price 80 cents bottle. Sold by 81. J
lille.
-E. E. Sparks is going to manufacture
letter patterns and raised gilded letters.
These enable any ordinary painter to
mark out letters, and do sign painting.
What Sparks fails TO think of in the mat
ter Of advanced sign painting is apt to
go unthought OF.
Snow began to fall Monday morning,
and Monday night pressed down with .
blizzard Not to exceed two or three
inches Of snow fell, but Tuesday morning
the mercury was down to zero, and
Wednesday morning, about five degrees
below. A brisk wind, varying from north
to northwest, made the weather danger
ous to fool with, Il We may be allowed the
expression.